Religion seems to have always offered us that false duality ... the silences of infinite space or the cozy comfort of inner certainty.

As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction

It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another.

The Great Change is when humankind accepts its role as part of the natural order of the universe instead of its role as a cancer

Words are the only bullets in truth's bandolier. And poets are the snipers.

If everyone could understand the working of a psychopath's mind, we undoubtedly would be closer to insanity ourselves.

Nobody gets beyond a petroleum economy. Not while there's petroleum there.

Seduction... was both a science and art - a blend of skill, discipline, proximity, and opportunity. Mostly proximity.

Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.

History viewed from the inside is always a dark, digestive mess, far different from the easily recognizable cow viewed from afar by historians.

The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.

Arrogance will kill anything and everything you ever possibly have.

The enormous expectation having to do with sexual love and the shame involved in this expectation degrades all a woman's perspectives from the start.

I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.

I think the perception of peace is what distracts most people from really having it.

WFMU is so experimental that you can go hours without hearing something that resembles an actual song.

The mind scolds the heart, which makes excuses and goes its own way.

I think everything in life is an evolution, isn't it?

To me, the greatest artists are almost entirely non-verbal.

To me, country music tells a story about, and deals with, the way people live their lives and what they do.

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.